What Sisters Take
ShortStory 6,021 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Here’s the thing you need to know to understand this story: I was meant to be an only child. The doctors, when they examined my mother, only counted one heartbeat. One. Me. I don’t know when my sister came along. My mother, so ready to accept, so unwilling to look, says she didn’t see the doctor much, back then. "
Content warnings 3
deathdeath-of-a-loved-oneviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.